Dish with a winter landscape. Dutch (from Delft), dated 1650. Faience with blue glaze. Rijksmuseum.
Source: hdl.handle.net
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Black-figure funerary plaque with scenes of prothesis (laying out of the dead) and chariot race
Greek (from Attica), Archaic Period, c. 520-510 B.C.
terracotta
Metropolitan Museum of Art
Source: metmuseum.org
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Black-figure pinax (plaque) with prothesis scene of the deceased lying in state
Attica, Greece, 6th century B.C.
terracotta
Walters Art Museum
Source: art.thewalters.org
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Thymiaterion (incense burner) with group of women seated around a well head
Greek (Tarentine), Classical Period, second half of the 4th cent. B.C.
terracotta
Metropolitan Museum of Art
Source: metmuseum.org
Fragment of a bell-krater (mixing bowl) with the helmeted head of Athena, by the Chicago Painter
Greek (from Attica), Classical Period, 5th century B.C.
terracotta
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Source: collections.mfa.org
Red-figure stamnos by the Chicago Painter, depicting women participating in a festival of Dionysus, possibly the Anthesteria, an early spring holiday celebrating the opening of new wine
Greek (from Attica), Early Classical Period, c. 450 B.C.
terracotta
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Source: collections.mfa.org
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Fragment of a red-figure stamnos depicting Demeter and Persephone
Greek (from Attica), Classical Period, late 5th century B.C.
terracotta
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Source: collections.mfa.org
Mould fragment of a bowl with maenad dancing and bearded satyr
Roman (Arretine ware), Augustan Period, 31 BC to AD 14
terracotta
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Source: collections.mfa.org
Red-figure skyphos with dancing maenad, attributed to the Frignano Painter
South Italian (from Campania), Late Classical Period, 375-350 BC
terracotta
Harvard Art Museums
Source: isaw.nyu.edu
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Corinthian potters invented the black-figure technique most associated with Ancient vase aesthetics, but in the period from 650 to 640 B.C., a time that scholars call Late Proto-Corinthian, potters decorated vases with simple patterns such as those seen here.
The uniform scaled pattern was drawn with a compass, you can still see the centering points.
Details from a terracotta psykter (vase for cooling wine) with hoplites mounted on dolphins, attributed to Oltos
Greek (from Attica), Archaic Period, c. 520-510 B.C.
Metropolitan Museum of Art
Source: metmuseum.org
Detail of Dionysos, Hermes, and satyrs from a terracotta amphora, attributed to a member of the Bateman Group
Greek (from Attica), c. 530 B.C.
Metropolitan Museum of Art
Source: metmuseum.org
Conical vase
Egyptian, Pre-Dynastic Period, c. 4400-3100 B.C.
terracotta
Brooklyn Museum
Source: brooklynmuseum.org
Wheeled ram-headed vessel with loop for attaching cord
Mesopotamian, second half of the 3rd millennium B.C.
terracotta
Brooklyn Museum
Source: brooklynmuseum.org
Red-figure cup with Achilles and Odysseus, attributed to Douris
Greek (made in Attica), Classical Period, c. 470 B.C.
Found at Vulci in modern-day Lazio, Italy
British Museum
Source: britishmuseum.org
Black-figure neck-amphora with Odysseus and companions blinding Polyphemus, attributed to the Polyphemus Group
Greek (produced in Italy in the Chalcidian style), Archaic Period, 520 B.C.
terracotta
British Museum
Source: britishmuseum.org
Red-figure calyx-krater with scene of Odysseus and his companions preparing to bind the Cyclops, perhaps inspired by Euripides’ satyr play Cyclops
Greek (from Lucania in Italy), Classical Period, c. 420-410 B.C.
terracotta
British Museum
Source: britishmuseum.org